Louisiana contractors, federal and state officials and public and private infrastructure owners are assessing all damage from one of the worst storms to hit the state.
A 24-hour rainfall total of 17.02 inches was recorded, nearly half during a six-hour midday window, but other radar showed amounts of 21 inches or more and 21 storm-related deaths are confirmed as of Aug. 23.
Transurban-Macquarie will spend $54M over next year to develop preliminary designs for added toll lanes and major bridge upgrade; state also will weigh proposals in fall for design-build contractor to replace Fluor on its stalled Purple Line rail P3.
“Nimble” is frequently used to describe how AEC human resources leaders responded to the cascade of challenges in the past year. On top of supporting field crews to help keep jobsites safe and productive amid Covid-19 outbreaks, HR teams scrambled to craft strategies for maintaining connections across a suddenly dispersed office workforce, sustain recruiting efforts with only limited access to prospective candidates and conduct sometimes difficult discussions of social justice issues raised by the Black Lives Matter movement.
A 2018 structural field survey report sheds light on the likely condition of the building at the time of the collapse, but says no repairs had been started as of June 2020.